Arborea: Tiny Desk Concert

While clearly rooted in acoustic traditions, the folk music of Arborea stands out for its calm beauty and rough edges. The duo incorporates harmonium, electric guitars played with an EBow, and a Ban-Jammer — a hybrid instrument that's part banjo, part mountain dulcimer.

World War II era Gibson guitars making music in Quinnipiac professor's CD project (video)

NEW HAVEN — It’s not enough to reveal in print the long-hidden secrets of how Gibson Inc. was able to turn out some of the best guitars ever made at a time when 90 percent of the workers at its Kalamazoo, Mich., factory had shifted over to build products to aid the World War II effort.

Resonating Yallingup

The Resonators describe themselves as a combination of traditional delta blues and early American folk music fused together by father and son, Greg and Junior Bowles.

NC Handcrafted Custom Lichty Guitar played by the Winner of Japan’s 2012 National Finger-picking Competition, Shohei ...

Custom Guitar builder Jay Lichty of Lichty Guitars specializes in building one-of-a-kind acoustic guitar and ukuleles. He recently designed and crafted a custom Cuban mahogany OM guitar for professional Japanese guitarist Shohei Toyoda who won one of his country’s premier guitar competitions, Japan’s 2012 National Finger-picking Competition.Tryon, NC (PRWEB) April 30, 2012 Shohei Toyoda is a ...

Gypsy roots, desert blues, bluegrass top world music

LONDON (Reuters) - Sitar player Anouska Shankar, whose album "Traveller" takes a journey through the music of India and Spanish flamenco to explore their shared Gypsy roots, was named Best Artist in Songlines magazine's annual world music awards. At a time of political unrest in Mali, artists from there took two awards - veteran Sahara Desert bluesmen Tinariwen were named as Best Group while ...

Taylor finds his muse with guitars

Tom Taylor works on a guitar at his shop. / BRICE STUMP/ EASTERN SHORE NEWS A homemade drum sander reduces boards to about sixteenth of an inch. Tom Taylor built the sander and most of the jigs, molds and tools for making his guitars.